Night one: Serenade Nocturne
With this festival I experienced a phenomenon which troubles me lately: because of all the impressions I was too restless to go to sleep right away. A nice opportunity to make some notes about the adventures of the day on my computer.
Internet is an essential facility for this. Background information about music and composer can be readily found. There is Wikipedia and all the other information to double-check.
Yes, internet is nice. I must say, however, that all these paths to information are inviting, almost forcing you to explore in some way. I call this phenomenon The Luring Link. For instance, I was looking up something about Antonio Jose and before I knew I was in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, General Franco’s biography and the failing colonial adventures of Spain in post World War One Morocco.
Well, never mind, a bit of historical knowledge is useful. Because everyone who fails to learn from history, will have to experience it again, isn’t it?
One of the major questions -specifically on the Internet- is: "what’s the truth?" Everyone drops his or her own truth there. Well, because of that you can at least compare truths and distil your own truth with reasonable probability. What about the Absolute Truth? I guess it’s somewhere in the middle. Please do not try to pull it left or right, because that’s the cause of a lot of hassle. That’s what I learned from the history of the Spanish Civil War anyway.